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Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (8)

Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (8)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

I’ve been thinking about Georgie Baker, who last week shared the happy news that she was wrapping up her degree in social work. Georgie was two-years-old when we first met. She would come to meeting with her grandparents, Ralph and Gan, and when the other children...
Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (8)

Things We Got Just Right (Universality Over Nationality)

by Stacey Denny | Sep 23, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

When I was in the fourth grade, one of my best friends was a boy named Joe Bryant, whose family rented a farmhouse southwest of Danville on Mackey Road. He moved to our town at the start of the school year, and we became friends the first week of school. His family...
Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (8)

Things We got Just Right (Our Insistence on Equality)

by Stacey Denny | Jun 10, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

I got the notice this week that my high school graduating class is planning our 45th year reunion, which I was looking forward to, but now am not, due to the confirmed presence of a narcissistic man who spent our twelve years together bullying our most vulnerable...
Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (8)

Cooperation, not Competition, as an Aspect of Community

by Stacey Denny | Mar 26, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

I was being a curmudgeon the other day, talking with someone about how young people today don’t know anything about history, when it occurred to me that until I was 30 or so, the only thing I knew about World War II was what I learned from watching Hogan’s Heroes. A...
Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (8)

Quaker Qualities (Democratic Discernment)

by Stacey Denny | Feb 15, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

It was my birthday this past week. I turned 63 and thought it important to have a little preventative maintenance done on my chassis, so Monday had my teeth cleaned, Tuesday had six pre-cancerous lesions frozen off, fasted on Wednesday, in preparation for a...
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